RUSA selects Spectrum Scholar for internship
Contact: Eileen Hardy
312-280-4398
For Immediate Release
March 5, 2003
RUSA selects Spectrum Scholar for internship
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected Morna B. Hilderbrand, a 2002 Spectrum scholar attending Syracuse University, as the 2003 RUSA Intern. As the RUSA Intern, Hilderbrand will work for a year and a half with RUSA vice-president/president-elect, Nancy Huling, head of the reference and research services division at the University of Washington. Hilderbrand will receive $3,000 to support travel expenses to attend the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference.
Hilderbrand has a bachelor of science in botany with a concentration in communications from Cornell University. She currently serves as an information delivery services technician at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She also has worked as a serials/reserve assistant and the weekend/night supervisor at the fine arts and management libraries at Cornell University.
"The internship will allow me to combine the skills I have learned in previous employment opportunities with the new topics I am learning in my MLS program at Syracuse University," Hilderbrand stated.
The ALA Spectrum Initiative provides $5,000 scholarships to students from the following underrepresented groups: African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino and Native American. More information about the Spectrum Initiative is available
online.
RUSA is a division of the ALA.
